Policing for Profit: The Private Security Sector (SAGE Contemporary Criminology series) - Softcover

South, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803981759 ISBN 13: 9780803981751

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1988

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`South goes beyond the conventional questions of private security as a subversion of civil liberties to identify, as major causes of concern, the unchallenged legitimacy of a system of policing that provides partial, unequal protection, serving money interests rather than the general good. He invites consideration of whether the displacement effect of such protection, by which those less able to pay for security are more victimized, is actually a subtle form of extortion... There is much in this heavily descriptive account that will inform and correct the debate on the control and accountability of private security... the book is an important review of the debates on the pervasiveness of society's shadow policing which, like private justice in general, is so often mistakenly marginalized in assessing the significance of social control' - Contemporary Sociology

`With the private security industry becoming more relevant to policing Mr South could not have chosen a more opportune time to produce a book of such importance... (his) argument for the statutory control of the industry is well put, and one that the police service should support' - Police Magazine

`makes a major contribution by providing a sociological perspective and a structural critique... Practitioners in the security and policing professions, Home Office officials, and the general reader will find his clearly written study a valuable resource for understanding the nature and range of security services in Britain... Because it attempts to chart the relationship between private security and the public police in a changing division of labor, Policing for Profit is important to the literature on social control... a valuable study in alerting us to many of the dangers posed by an under-regulated private security sector... The guards will go unguarded as long as the surveilled are complacent. South's book is a highly recommended antidote' - Social Justice

`The appearance of Nigel South's attempt to revive interest and concern about this phenomenon is... both welcome and timely. The book provides a very comprehensive review of available knowledge and current debates... about private security, with particular emphasis on developments and responses to them in Britain... South's book constitutes a welcome and significant starting point for any such discussion in the British context.' - British Journal of Criminology

`..an important contribution to private scurity research that should enhance the debate surroundung this area of social control. The reader of this work will acheive a deeper understanding of the implications private ecurity has for modern social control and the policing of society' - American Journal of Police

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This volume examines the role of private investigators, industrial security and other private policing, and addresses key problems of public accountability associated with commercial policing.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0803981759
• ISBN 13: 9780803981751
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192